The world’s tiniest sea turtles keep getting stranded on Cape Cod

Florida's diving museum, the language of rock hyraxes, and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. December 11, 2019 Tiny Stranded Turtles Cape Cod is famous for being a haven for New England vacationers, but it’s also an infamous death trap for Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the smallest and most endangered turtles in the world. Read More → ISLAMORADA, FLORIDA Dive Into This Museum Opened by two divers, Florida’s History of Diving Museum houses everything from recreations of historical diving methods—including a one-person submarine fashioned from a wooden barrel—to the present day. Read more → What Does a Rock Hyrax Say? The rock hyrax is small mammal that pierces Israel’s Ein Gedi Nature Reserve with a suite of squawks, chirps, and barks. They’re known to have distinct dialects throughout Israel and recent research shows their calls might even be more ‘human’ than previously thought. Read more → Share the Gift of Wonder 100 new places. 12 city guides. One New York Times bestseller. Searching for a way to share wonder? Look no further than the new 2nd edition of our book. Shop Now → Madron, England An Ailment-Curing Well Less than a mile southeast from Lanyon Quoit sits Madron Well, where, according to Cornish legend, the water that bubbles from an underground spring is reputed to have healing powers. Read more → Community Places to Brave the Cold Inside the 12-mile long Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska, is a gorgeous, fluorescent blue ice cave that feels as though you’ve entered another realm. This is just one example of the wondrous places worth bundling up for. Tell us about your favorite chilly hotspots. Share now → TALLASSEE, TENNESSEE Underwater Bridge When Tennessee’s Chilhowee Lake was drawn down in 2008, a remarkably intact bridge emerged, along with a collection of stolen vehicles. Nobody is quite sure when the bridge was originally built or by whom. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222